“This Christmas, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love and then speak it again.”

~Howard W. Hunter

"Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Philippians 4:11

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If everything in one's immediate context were constantly clear, God's plan would not work. Hard choices as well as passing through periodic mists of darkness are needed in order to maintain life's basic reality—that we are to overcome by faith."-Elder Neal A. Maxwell

The Lord gives us ways to help remember Him and His sustaining powers. One way is through that common lot we all share—adversity (see Alma 32:6). As I look back at the trials I have faced, it is clear that they have resulted in my growth, understanding, and empathy. They have drawn me closer to my Heavenly Father and His Son with experiences and refining engraved into my heart. -Elder Terence M. Vinson (Ensign, Nov 2013)

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

― Cicero

"Hold your soul very still, and listen to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.  Follow the noble, intuitive feelings planted deep within your souls by Deity in the previous world." 
-Elder James E. Faust "How Near to Angels" Ensign May 1998